Zaolla Complete range now avalible

Published: Thu May 31, 2007

We are proud to announce that the complete range of Zaolla cables are now avalible via Dolphin Music.

Whether you're a professional musician, recording engineer, or an audiophile, the search for superior signal transmission is over. The heart of the Zaolla cable line, are silver conductors, not copper that have been silver-plated. Being a superior conductor, silver exhibits transmission properties far beyond that of the highest quality oxygen-free-copper. What you can expect from Zaolla cables are a level of clarity and transparency previously unobtainable from copper.

And as you equip your listening rooms with today's finest speakers, amplifiers and outboard gear, you must remember that the cables you use to connect your system are equally important, and can affect your audio in a profound manner. Simply put: Cables are audio components. And when you focus inward, down to the atomic level, to the heart of the cables' center conductors, differences in the capabilities of various metals used in audio cable construction actually become visible. Deep inside Zaolla's Ultra Pure Solid Silver center conductor, the reasons that some cables sound better than others becomes crystal clear.

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To create our Ultra-Pure Solid-Silver conductor, pure molten silver is poured into specially heated molds which allow precise control of the annealing process. This exclusive process yields a molecularly superior, unidirectionally solidified silver, as opposed to the conventional cast ingot with its haphazard internal crystallization. That is why our center conductors exhibit signal-transmission characteristics that are demonstrably freer from artifacts present in transmissions through copper and even through ordinary silver conductors, putting Zaolla cables in a separate class altogether from many other premium-cable brands currently available. In fact, the silver used in these Silverline cables is 99.9997% Pure Solid Silver!

So, what is it about silver that makes it a far better conductor than copper for audio signal? The answer lies in the atom itself: Current flows through a conductor when electrons are released from the atom's "incomplete outer shell" (the outer-most layer of orbiting electrons). Copper, with its Atomic Weight of only 29, holds 29 electrons in its orbit, but silver is a "fatter" atom, holding 47 electrons in its orbit. Those outer-shell electrons in the Silver atom are much more easily knocked out of orbit. Silver's relative "willingness" to let those outer electrons escape is the reason it makes such a good conductor. In fact, silver is the most conductive metal on earth.

Most of us have spent a lifetime with copper as the standard material for making electrical conductors. There is a large and impressive pool of anecdotal listening results based upon blends of copper and various cable geometries and dielectrics, and it teaches us that substantial differences in the sonic performance of these differing approaches do exist. But these various approaches all have one thing in common: They are attempting to mitigate the signal degradation caused by the passage of that signal through copper. When solid silver is used (especially our Ultra-Pure Solid Silver) you can throw out those esoteric approaches and get back to the basics, because solid-silver conductors like these approach, much more closely than copper cables can, the ideal of pure energy in/pure energy out.

Below you can find a overview of the ranges of cables offered by Zaolla.

Audio Cables

Zaolla Silverline Audio Interconnects are designed to transmit every subtle detail of your source material while keeping noise out. From the solid silver center conductor to its redundant shielding, Zaolla Silverline Audio Interconnects truly delivers transparent audio like no other cable before. The basic structure of the Zaolla interconnect is created with multiple layers of shielding. The quality of materials and workmanship is second to none, and in fact these cables are so well engineered, they raise the bar to which all other cables must aspire.

Zaolla's Audio Interconnects are designed to work with skin effect, essentially by creating more surface for high frequencies to travel. This is accomplished with multiple, enamel coated, oxygen-free copper windings working in conjunction with the Ultra Pure, solid silver center conductors. In this manner, high frequencies are given multiple surfaces to travel free from interference. This causes a dramatic decrease in high frequency "smearing" and other time-based phase or amplitude induced signal degradation. To ensure superior EMI, RFI, and electrostatic rejection, Zaolla cables employ very densely braided, silver plated pure copper windings over a soft layer of conductive PVC for 100% coverage, flexibility, noiseless handling, and interference free operation.

Video Cables

A superior High-End Video interconnect.... Zaolla achieve true 75 Ohm by creating precision uniform cable geometry, using FPE, a special foam dielectric material. The result is a purer signal transmission with virtually no loss of picture detail.

To protect that transmission, Zaolla employ redundant, triple EMI, RFI, and electrostatic shielding for 100% coverage. Zaolla use a single layer of OFC copper foil beneath two offset, overlapping precisely woven silver plated OFC pure copper braids, separated from each other by a nonconductive layer of friction reducing PTFE tape. There is simply no better shielding available to protect video transmission.

A superior High-End Digital interconnect.... Zaolla achieve true 75 Ohm by creating precision uniform cable geometry, using FPE, a special foam dielectric material. The result is a purer signal transmission with no jitter, and with dramatic reductions in phase-related high frequency signal anomalies.

To protect that transmission, Zaolla employ redundant, triple EMI, RFI, and electrostatic shielding for 100% coverage. Zaolla use a single layer of OFC copper foil beneath two offset, overlapping precisely woven silver plated OFC pure copper braids, separated from each other by a nonconductive layer of friction reducing PTFE tape. There is simply no better shielding available to protect digital transmission.

When it comes to a performing cable, there simply isn't any better choice than a Zaolla guitar / instrument cable. Why? Aside from the Solid Silver Center Conductor, it's phenomenally shielded. Take a look at other so-called top-of-the-line cables; take a good look at the construction and the materials used. Then consider that silver is a superior conductor than copper. This is just plain physics. Then, examine the shielding.

The magic of Zaolla cables is really not magic at all, but rather a commitment to excellence in audio cable design through the use of choice materials and skilled technicians that hand assemble each cable.

The guitar player that plays an instrument of choice tone woods plugged straight into a tube amp will enjoy all the beautiful sweetness and tone that guitar can deliver without any loss of tone or added coloration. In fact most players notice a slightly stronger signal (no doubt due to the physical properties of the silver conductor). The performing guitarist benefits not only from the transparent audiophile properties, but also from the redundant layers of shielding which protects the signal from EMI, RFI, and electrostatic noise.

Bassists are usually very quick to notice the difference a Zaolla cable makes. Because Zaolla cables are virtually flat throughout the audio spectrum (at least that which us mere humans can tell) all that fat bottom is preserved as well as those crisp highs. That said, the funk player that slaps and snaps will have all his / her signal delivered unadulterated to the preamp—all the subtleties and nuances, along with the pristine fidelity of the instrument, will be transmitted.

Microphone Cables

These Microphone cables, like Zaolla's Instrument and Audio cables, are designed to work with skin effect, essentially by creating more surface area for high frequencies to travel. This is accomplished with multiple, enamel coated, oxygen free copper windings working in conjunction with the Ultra-pure, solid silver center conductors. In this manner, high frequencies are given multiple surfaces to travel free from interference. This causes a dramatic decrease in high frequency "smearing" and other time-based phase or amplitude induced signal degradation.

Speaker Cables

Zaolla’s Elation Speaker Cable is the first-ever speaker cable offered to the professional audio market to employ three runs per conductor of individually insulated, Ultra-Pure SOLID Silver (99.9997% purity!). The equivalent mass per conductor is that of a 14 AWG speaker cable, and yet its performance out-works and certainly out-performs even larger gauge oxygen-free copper speaker cables.

The positive and negative conductors are separated from each other essentially by the air contained in three carefully sized and positioned polyethylene tubes. (Air is a superior dielectric, second only to a vacuum, for separating conductors and providing an absolute minimum of interaction with the audio signal.)

By offering the Elation Speaker Cable, Zaolla has laid the final piece of the puzzle in the audio signal chain, offering studio owners and audiophiles alike an unpar-alleled opportunity to complete their systems, from front to back, with demonstrably superior cabling. Soon, recording studios will be able to proclaim proudly, “Completely Wired with Zaolla Silverline Cables.”

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